DATABASE SYSTEMS SUPPORTED: - MySQL - Oracle NUTRIENT DATABASES INCLUDED: - Canadian Nutrient File, Health Canada, 2010 (electronic version at www.healthcanada.gc.ca/cnf) - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2012. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 25. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page, http://www.ars.usda.gov/ba/bhnrc/ndl (Full and Abbreviated versions.) PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Nutriana takes the food composition data released by various official sources in the world and converts it into formats specific to the database systems mentioned above. HOW IT WORKS: A human being is needed to extract the description and constraints of a given nutrient database into a file that can be programmatically processed. The JSON format was chosen for readability and portability reasons. Nutriana prefers not to modify the nutrient database's official data files, but to ensure successful database creation and data import, some changes may be necessary. All modifications are fully disclosed in the */MODIFICATIONS files, and typically involve correcting field size or key constraint definitions, removing trailing whitespace and/or replacing "no value" indicators with "null". IF YOUR PREFERRED DATABASE IS NOT SUPPORTED: It should be easy to add support for other databases by copying one of the Perl module files (*.pm) and editing it as needed to output the format for your database system. (If you find it's not, let me know by creating an issue.) Run the build.sh file to (re)generate the database vendor files. The script will automatically detect the new .pm file and attempt to output SQL for it. To alter the database name or user credentials, edit the "generate_sql.pl" file. AUTHOR: - Maarten van Egmond LICENSE: - Nutriana is released under the MIT license; see the LICENSE file. - Full licensing and usage information for the incuded nutrient databases is available in the */LICENSE files.